The Wall Street Journal has hired Washington Post reporter Deanna Paul.
She will start on Jan. 13 and cover the Manhattan district attorney’s office and the New York attorney general’s office.
Paul covers national and breaking news for The Post. She was part of the newspaper’s team that was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting, revealing the vast number of unsolved homicides in America’s major cities.
Before joining The Post, she spent six years as a New York City prosecutor. Her work has also appeared in Wired, Rolling Stone, the Guardian and the Marshall Project.